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RE: (erielack) Erie K5, K5a [was PSC Erie K5b]

Look, Randy, say what you want.  I have discussed this with Dan at some extreme length.

SGL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet & Randy Brown [mailto:jananran_@_mymailstation.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:46 AM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) Erie K5, K5a [was PSC Erie K5b]
> 
> SGL said, "Not>>>ALL<<< were rebuilt with new engine beds. I know for sure that there were two
that were not, one
> of which is 2944 and I'm not sure of the other one. . ."
> 
> Biernacki says, "In the spring of 1940, Erie initiated a major rebuild program that would include
all 10 K5a and the lone
> K5b . . . only three of the original K5 group were rebuilt . . ."
> 
> Since pictures abound of 2944 as rebuilt, I'll stick with Dan on this one:
> 
> All ten K5a and the K5b (and three K5) were rebuilt.
> 
> The rebuild often -- but not always -- included the change to VoxPok drivers.  SGL may be thinking
of 2938, which
> Dan says was the only  engine to come out of rebuild with ALL spoked drivers.  However, by
8/16/47, it had a BoxPok
> main driver.
> 
> As far as I know, the Max Gray came, in both scales, with only the Delta trailing truck.
Therefore, it is a K5a.  The
> pumps on the front indicate a rebuild.  To backdate it to a K5 takes a lot of work: change the
drivers, if you need to and
> want spoked; move the pumps (getting rid of one in the process and mounting the other where the
Elesco feed pump
> was); moving the Elesco pump; and changing the trailing truck -- which in O scale meant, when I
did it,  building one.
> I think it came with the fabricated valve gear hanger (or I changed it: it has one now).
> 
> Big tender, little tender?  Regular spoked drivers or the ones with the box spokes (hence the
name)?  Which number?
> When?  Your choice.
> 
> Randy Brown
> 
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